Maria Martinez: America’s power shortage is a market failure
BNSF classification yard in northwest Denver, CO, USA. “Lessons from the early development of the U.S. rail system could help expand the electric grid today, writes Maria Martinez, director of strategy for the Clean Economy Project.” Photo: Acton Crawford / Unsplash
“Over the past few months, the conversation about electricity prices has increasingly focused on slowing load growth, capping rates, or debating who should pay for the power that new data centers require.
That debate misses the larger issue.
America’s emerging power shortage isn’t primarily a technology problem or even a demand problem — it’s a market design problem. And solutions that don’t address that directly are merely bandaids.”
Maria Martinez wrote the above on LinkedIn, introducing an op-ed in Utility Dive. Check out her full piece to explore “thinking beyond short-term fixes and focusing on the structural reforms that allow supply to scale alongside the economy.”
